Poor Governance

Good morning, Sir Stupidity

You have been a great friend of African dictators for a long time and to this day you are hanging around corners soliciting for more people to deceive because there are no defenses against stupidity. Since so many people don't understand what you stand for, allow me to highlight to the ordinary citizen the science of stupidity.

First and foremost I would like to notify my readers that you are a threat to humanity. It was Professor Carlo M. Cipolla, a professor of Economic History at the University of California, Berkeley who was the first to bring to the attention of humanity in his 1976 essay, the existential threat posed by the fundamentals of your stupidity.

According to the reputed scholar who passed away in 2000, there are five fundamental laws of stupidity:

Law 1: Bossologically, you may assume that you are surrounded by reliable and intelligent men and women to lean on though their exact numbers could be exponentially higher than your fake assumptions. Since you are lowballing the numbers of stupid employees around, they could be far much higher.

Law 2: You, the highest ranking official who is the boss, could be the number one stupid person. Since stupidity has no race and gender, belief or religion, political and national origin, even the highest institutions in the world could have substantial numbers of stupid people. There are stupid professors, CEOs, presidents and prime ministers, lawyers and lawmakers, kings and sheikhs, principals and head teachers etc.

Law 3: The stupid person causes tremendous losses to the other person while gaining nothing to his or her advantage. This is what Cipolla describes as "The Golden Law of Stupidity." When a Teller keeps you waiting to retrieve your money for an extended time, that's stupidity. Being kept longer on the phone by a customer service representative, is undoubtedly, sheer stupidity. Silly arguments on social media is decorated stupidity.

Now, let's have a glimpse of the three phenotypes that co-exist with stupidity:
The first one is the intelligent person whose functions benefit everyone, including himself. The second one is the bandit whose main intention is to benefit from others to his benefit. The third and last one is the helpless person who benefits others without gaining anything in return.

Law 4: A non-stupid person is clueless, not understanding the damages caused by the stupid person.

Law 5: Of all human beings, whether declining or successful, have numerous stupid people who are the most dangerous, though, the bandit, is more destructive. The non-stupid, who are simply bystanders, are the major causes of the collapse of stable nations.